Electronic Density-Matrix Algorithm for Nonadiabatic Couplings in Molecular Dynamics Simulations
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Electronic Density-Matrix Algorithm for Nonadiabatic Couplings in Molecular Dynamics Simulations M. TOMMASINI,1 V. CHERNYAK,2 S. MUKAMEL2 1Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale e Ingegneria Chimica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy 2Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, P. O. RC Box 270216 Rochester, NY 14627-0216 Received 25 February 2001; accepted 2 March 2001 ABSTRACT: Closed expressions for nonadiabatic couplings are derived using the collective electronic oscillators (CEO) algorithm based on the time-dependent Hartree–Fock equations. Analytic derivatives allow the calculation of transition density matrices and potential surfaces at arbitrary nuclear geometries using a molecular dynamics trajectory that only requires a CEO calculation at a single configuration. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem 00: 1–14, 2001 Key words: trix between ground and excited states, is computed Introduction instead [5]. These matrices further represent col- lective oscillators or electronic normal modes that he simulation of photoinduced processes in describe the time evolution of the density matrix of T molecules requires the computation of elec- the system under the effects of an external perturba- tronic potential surfaces and nonadiabatic cou- tion. The CEO eigenvalue equation can be written as plings between them [1, 2]. The collective electronic Lξk = kξk.(1) oscillators approach (CEO) provides an inexpensive algorithm for computing adiabatic potential sur- L is the effective TDHF Liouville operator for the faces [3, 4]. This constitutes a major computational molecule, whose spectrum describes the electronic saving since a quantity which carries much less in- excitations of the system. The atomic orbital rep- formation than the many electron wavefunction of resentation of the oscillators ξk provides a clear the excited states, namely the transition density ma- characterization of molecular excitations in real space [6]. The eigenvectors ξk are normalized ac- 1 = ¯ † = ¯ Correspondence to: S. Mukamel; e-mail: mukamel@chem. cording to: (ξk, ξk) Tr(ρ[ξk , ξk]) 1, where ρ is rochester.edu. Contract grant sponsor: National Science Foundation and the 1The scalar product introduced here to normalize the eigen- Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society. vectors ξk is discussed in Appendix A. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Vol. 00, 1–14 (2001) © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. TOMMASINI, CHERNYAK, AND MUKAMEL the Hartree–Fock ground state density matrix. The has been rewritten in terms of the ground state plus x sum of the excitation energy k(R)andtheground the excitation energy εk = ε0 + k.Thematrixh ˆx state energy ε0(R) at different nuclear configura- represents the operator h in the chosen basis set tions R gives the excited state adiabatic potential ˆx = x † h nmhnmcncm. The expression for NAC involving surface εk(R). These quantities are sufficient to de- the ground state is even simpler and only requires scribe the nuclear dynamics of a molecule in regions † the knowledge of (ρi0)nm =i|cncm|0≡(ξi)nm and of the nuclear space far away from avoided cross- † † (ρ0i)nm =0|c cm|i≡(ξ )nm ings or conical intersections. However, many in- n i teresting photoinduced processes involve the tran- ξ x Tr(ξ †hx) x = Tr( ih ) x = i sition between different potential surfaces in the Ai0 ; A0i .(5) i i vicinity of an avoided crossing or conical intersec- The matrices {ξ } are obtained from the collective tion [7]. An example of such a process is the cis to i electronic oscillators algorithm [6, 12]. The transi- trans photoisomerization of rhodopsin which is the tion density matrices between excited states, ρ ,can elementary process in vision [8 – 10]. Under these ik be also expressed in terms of the CEO [13]. To use circumstances it is crucial to include the nonadia- ˆx batic couplings between different potential surfaces Eqs. (4) and (5) we need to express the operator h in order to properly describe the joint electronic and in terms of the derivative of the matrix elements of the molecular Hamiltonian. In Appendix C we nuclear dynamics, and to predict the branching ra- ˆ tios among different reaction pathways. show that the matrix elements of the operator hx The aim of this work is to derive closed ex- canbeexpressedinanatomicorbitalrepresenta- pressions for the nonadiabatic couplings (NAC) tion as between any pair of electronic states in the CEO hx = tx + Vxρ¯ (6) framework. The close connection between the NAC and the derivatives of the density matrices further where tx is the derivative of the matrix elements provides the formal solution of the equations pro- for the one-electron part of the Hamiltonian and Vx posed in [3] in terms of CEO eigenvectors and NAC. is the derivative of the electron–electron interaction ˆ The first-order nonadiabatic couplings are con- operator. The operator hx represents the vibronic veniently defined in terms of a vector potential in coupling of the molecular Hamiltonian and it is the nuclear space [11] source of the nonadiabatic coupling. These results will be discussed in the coming sections. The sec- ∂ Ax ≡− i k (2) ond section presents the derivatives of the ground ik ∂x state density matrix and of the CEO transition den- where i| and k| are two adiabatic electronic states sity matrices. In the third section we present the and x is a generic nuclear coordinate. In Appendix B equations for classical molecular dynamics on ex- we use perturbation theory to express the NAC in cited state hypersurfaces using the CEO/TDHF ap- the form proach. An analytic expression for the derivatives |ˆx| of the density matrices is also derived. In the fourth x = i h k = Aik ; i k (3) section we discuss some general properties of nona- εi − εk diabatic couplings resulting from the translational ˆx where h is the derivative of the molecular Hamil- symmetry of the electronic Hamiltonian when ex- ˆ 2 tonian H with respect to a nuclear coordinate x. pressed using atomic orbitals centered on the nuclei. This expression is convenient for numerical compu- Similar properties are derived also for the density tations. Introducing a basis set, with the correspond- matrices. In the fifth section we discuss the role † ing fermionic creation and annihilation operators cn of nonadiabatic couplings in determining a contri- and cn,wehave bution to vibrational infrared absorption intensi- ρ x ties. Finally, the Appendixes present details of the x = Tr( ikh ) = Aik ; i k.(4)derivations and the CEO algorithm. i − k =| † | (ρik)nm i cncm k denotes the one-electron tran- sition density matrix and the excited state energy Analytic Derivatives 2Throughout this work we use the short-hand notation and denote the derivative with respect to a nuclear coordinate x by x By solving the Hartree–Fock equation for the superscript. density matrix at various nuclear configurations 2 VOL. 00, NO. 0 NONADIABATIC COUPLINGS and the CEO eigenvalue problem [Eq. (1)] it is possi- x = ξ , Lxξ ; i i i bletoconstructtheentireadiabaticpotentialenergy Lxζ = F(ρ¯)x, ζ + Vxζ , ρ¯ + Vζ , ρ¯x . surfaces. The nonadiabatic couplings at each nu- clear configuration can then be computed from the Here and in the remainder of this paper ζ denotes a knowledge of the CEO transition matrices and the matrix representing an arbitrary single electron op- transition energies, using Eqs. (4) and (5). A differ- erator: Eq. (9) shows the action of superoperators in ent strategy for achieving the same goal is to use Liouville space. The scalar product (ζ1, ζ2)inEq.(9) the analytic derivatives of all quantities with re- is defined as spect to the nuclear coordinates. It is then possible † (ζ , ζ ) = (ζ |ζ ) = Tr ρ¯[ζ , ζ ] . (10) in principle to carry out the full Hartree–Fock/CEO 1 2 1 2 1 2 calculation only once, at some chosen initial config- With respect to this scalar product the Liouville op- uration. The analytic derivatives then allow us to erator Lζ = [F(ρ¯), ζ ]+[Vζ , ρ¯]ofEq.(1)isHermitian: x compute the quantities of interest at all configura- (Lη1, η2) = (η1, Lη2) (see Appendix A). F(ρ¯) is the tions by running a trajectory; we can thus generate derivative of the Fock matrix corresponding to the the density matrices on the fly while avoiding a new ground state density matrix ρ¯ (see Appendix H). Hartree–Fock SCF or a new CEO computation in the displaced nuclear configuration. Such strategy is reminiscent of Car–Parrinello simulations [14]. In Classical Nuclear this section we provide closed expressions for these Dynamics Simulations derivatives. Numerical considerations should deter- mine which strategy is to be preferred: repeating the Many processes and spectroscopic properties CEO or using the derivatives. Making use of these may be adequately simulated by running classical results for the NAC it is possible to compute the trajectories on excited state surfaces. However, the derivative of the ground state density matrix and classical description breaks down at curve crossing the derivative of the CEO eigenvectors. points where a quantum wave packet calculation is A general relationship exists between the deriv- required [7]. In [3] the Hartree–Fock equation for ative of the density matrices and the NAC (see Ap- the ground state and the CEO algorithm for the pendix D) TDHF were differentiated with respect to nuclear coordinates in order to get closed equations that can ρx = Ax ρ − ρ Ax .(7) ij ik kj ik kj describe the molecular dynamics on excited state k = i k = j hypersurfaces. We recast here the equations of [3] In particular we have for the ground state density using a somewhat different notation and adopting matrix a different point of view which underscores the ¯x = x − x † interesting role of the nonadiabatic couplings. We ρ A0jξj Aj0ξj .(8) j>0 consider both electronic and nuclear degrees of free- dom and write equations of motion for the variables Equation (8) shows that the derivative of the ground of interest along the classical trajectory of the nuclei.